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37 Great Happiness Quotes

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Posted on: 31st May 2014
What is happiness? That's one of the difficult questions to answer. Plenty of writers, poets and philosophers tried to define it. Even more people tried to achieve it.

Here is my selection of happiness quotations. Enjoy.

1. "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~  Abraham
Lincoln.

2. "You have to base your fairy tale not upon happily ever after, but on happy right now." ~ Taylor Swift.

3. "A happy life is just a string of happy moments." ~  Abraham-Hicks.

"You can acquire the habit of happiness." ~  Maxwell Maltz.

4. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." ~  Epictitus.

5. "Our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events." ~ Wilhelm Von Humboldt.

6. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim.

7. "Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence." ~  Leo Tolstoi.

8. "Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object." ~  Hermann Hesse

9. "If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects." ~ Albert
Einstein.

10 "Happiness depends on ourselves." ~ Aristotle.

11. "He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe.

12. "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open." ~ John Barrymore.

13. "It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness�. ~
Charles H. Spurgeon.

14. "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."  ~ Dalai Lama.
           

15. "The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past." ~ Andre Maurois.

16. "True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

17. "Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude." ~ Dale Carnegie.

18. "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" ~ Albert Camus. 

19. "True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." ~ Seneca.

20. "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."  ~ Guillaume Apollinaire.

21. "Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.

22. "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." ~ Henry Ward Beecher.

23. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." ~ Albert Schweitzer.

24. "The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

25. "Happiness is an inside job." ~ William Arthur Ward.

26. "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it." ~ William Feather.

27. "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer.

28. "Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."  ~ Deepak Chopra.

29. "Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it." ~ Alexandre Dumas.

30. "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." ~  Benjamin Disraeli.

31. "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels." ~ Bertolt Brecht.

32. "Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself." ~ Samuel Levenson.

33. "Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness." ~ Andre Gide.

34. "Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it." ~ Fyodor
Dostoevsky.

35. "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it
elsewhere." ~ Agnes Repplier.

36. "Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled." ~ Benjamin Spock.

37. "If you want to be happy, be." ~ Leo Tolstoy.

There you have it. You can't delegate or outsource the attainment of happiness, and there are no happiness apps or pills. You'll have to create it yourself.

However, the news is not all that bad. You have the power to make yourself happy and keep it up.

What is your favorite happiness quote?

Life should be fun - enjoy it!





Henning Viljoen.

P.S. This is one of the best places to learn online marketing.

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